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Enlarge ImageRequest to buy this photo(AP Photo/NASA)Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano stands on the end of a robotic arm during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 9, 2013.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two astronauts left the International Space Station yesterday for a day
of maintenance tasks, including installing a power cable needed for a new Russian laboratory
expected to arrive later this year.

Veteran NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy and rookie partner Luca Parmitano, the first Italian
to make a spacewalk, left the station shortly after 8 a.m. EDT as the orbital outpost sailed about
260 miles above the Arabian Sea.